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SUMMARY:Tracing Your WW2 Army Ancestors Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Uncovering a relative’s wartime story can feel like piecing together a tricky puzzle. Pieces can be scattered across archives, service records, and long forgotten paperwork. And they come with a language all of their own. This workshop guides you through the process of tracing soldiers who served in the British Army during the Second World War. It will show you where to look, what survives, and how to interpret what you find.\nWe’ll explore the major sources for wartime service – personnel files, unit war diaries, casualty lists, medal records, POW documentation, and more. And explain how each fits into the wider picture of a soldier’s experience. You’ll learn how to follow an ancestor from enlistment to demobilisation. How to decode the jargon of military paperwork. And how to place an individual story within the broader context of the Army’s campaigns.\nWhether you’re starting from a single photograph or already have a bundle of documents you’re struggling to make sense of, this workshop will equip you with practical methods, research pathways, and the confidence to push your family’s wartime story further.\nPre-booking is required.\nImage: Lieutenant A. R. Tanner, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons\nTo book, scroll down. \n
URL:https://berksfhs.org/events/tracing-your-ww2-army-ancestors-workshop/
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LOCATION:L14 London Road Campus, London Road, Reading, Berkshire RG1 5AQ
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